SOLICITATION NOTICE
47 -- NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB): Provision of Vehicle and Personnel Utility Crossings
- Notice Date
- 5/31/2017
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 332996
— Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry & Security, Department of Commerce, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1099D, Washington, District of Columbia, 20230
- ZIP Code
- 20230
- Solicitation Number
- IFB-5HQ27010-01
- Archive Date
- 6/30/2017
- Point of Contact
- Lee Ann Carpenter, Phone: 202-482-2583
- E-Mail Address
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LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov
(LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) intends to issue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) for the provision of vehicle and personnel utility crossings. In order to bid on this project, a U.S. prime contractor must 1) maintain a professionally active facility (office, factory, etc.) in the United States 2) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB) 3) be nominated to the bidders list by the U.S. Government 4) be registered in the NSPA Source File: https://eportal.nspa.nato.int/Registration/OnlineRegistration.aspx?lng=en The Department of Commerce will be using IFB-5HQ27010-01 as its reference for this project. SUMMARY DESCRIPTION A. General NSPA is the contracting entity for the acquisition of CP project 5A0156 "Provide NATO with Equipment for Deployable HQ" serial 5HQ27010-01 "Provision of vehicle and personnel utility crossings". Due to the specificity of the requirement, one Invitation for Bids (IFB) will be issued for 1) Vehicle Cable Ramps/Protectors and 2) Pedestrian Cable Ramps/Protectors. B. Project Objectives The Contractor shall furnish NSPA with the following equipment: Vehicle and Pedestrian Cable Ramps/Protectors for: - Four 500 man Large Headquarters Camps (each having two vehicle crossing points and six pedestrian crossings); - Two 15 man Remote Site Camps (each having two vehicle crossing points and four pedestrian crossings). Sizes of cable used in camps: Various from ⌀19mm to ⌀50mm power cables Up to 20 mm fiber optic cable. Equipment to be provided in accordance with detailed technical requirements defined in applicable SOW. These assets will be used to provide NATO Deployable camps with the capability of driving vehicles within the camp area where cables and water hoses exist. The equipment will be used over a wide range of geographic environments and climatic conditions with operating temperatures ranging between -32°C and +49°C. Accordingly, NATO expects the equipment to be robust and of high quality, as per the specification of the SOW. C. Logistic Support Elements High quality documentation for spares, assembly and maintenance is required, as per the specification of the SOW. SPECIFIC TERMS AND CONDITIONS Delivery: No more than 9 months after contract award. Partial Bidding: No partial offers will be entertained. Requirement for ISO 9001:2015 and AQAP 2130 Quality Assurance are included Actual quantities to be included in the IFB may vary slightly from those specified in this announcement. Some project deliverables may be included in the IFB as options to be acquired at later stages of the project implementation process. BIDDING PROCEDURE NATO ICB requires that the U.S. Government nominate U.S. prime contractors to the bidders list. Before the U.S. Government can nominate a U.S. prime contractor to the bidders list for this procurement, the U.S. firm must be approved for participation in NATO ICB. U.S. firms are approved for NATO ICB on a facility-by-facility basis. The U.S. NATO ICB application is a one-time application. The application requires supporting documentation in the form of 1) a company resume indicating contracts completed as a prime contractor and 2) an annual report or set of financial documents indicating compilation, review, or audit by an independent CPA. U.S. firms can download a copy of the U.S. NATO ICB application from the following website: http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/other-areas/strategic-industries-and-economic-security-sies/nato-related-business-opportunities The application and supporting documentation may be submitted as e-mail attachments. If, when submitting the application, your firm is interested in a specific NATO ICB project, please include the following in the text of your email: - the title and/or reference number of the project - the name/phone/FAX/email of the company employee who should receive the bid documents After approval of your one-time NATO ICB application, the Department of Commerce will then know to follow up by issuing a Declaration of Eligibility (DOE) for that project. A DOE is used to nominate an approved prime contractor to the bidders list for a particular NATO ICB project. IMPORTANT DATES U.S. firms must request a DOE (and, for U.S. firms new to NATO ICB, submit the one-time NATO ICB application) by: 26 June 2017 NSPA intends to issue the IFB to firms on its bidders list at a date yet to be determined, but not before 30 June 2017. The bidders will be allowed no fewer than 42 calendar days to reply to the relevant IFB.
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